April 2017: School Administrator
Righting the balance in schools over use of one ubiquitous tool
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A Week Without Online Devices: What Students LearnedImagine asking high school students to give up their treasured cellphones for a full week.
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Harnessing Cellphone 'Addiction'
What if the device of distraction could be harnessed into a powerful tool for learning and thoughtful digital citizenship? How educators might change the conversations that happen around mobile devices.
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Using BYOD Across the DistrictTo embrace the use of students' personal technology in schools, leadership in Fort Bend, Texas, finds it must meet teachers' needs first. It's helping them deal with a unique set of challenges compared to classrooms without a BYOD policy.
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Adding School Climate and Culture to the Data MixDashboards represent a new application of statistical measures beyond students' test scores.
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Community Engagement 2.0A three-part scaffold for local schools to capture the public's trust and build on it for the benefit of students. The author is a former superintendent.
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Pathways to the SuperintendencyAn infographic on common routes to the top.
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Praying for a ColleagueThe dilemma of a 7 a.m. campus vigil for a prominent teacher.
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Six Applicable Apps for SuperintendentsThe top choices of his personal learning network.
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Educating Immigrant StudentsAn issue at the center of public debate.
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Clamping Down on a Roving Board Member
Aberrant behavior is easy to diagnose but harder to cure.
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‘So Tell Us About Your Failures’
How leaders can grow through failures.
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The Last Lesson Plan: On Losing a Teacher
A superintendent's reflection on the most recent loss in her school community.
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The Rule of GoldGrowing up in a small rural hamlet instilled in me a keen sense of community and helped me appreciate the importance of community values.
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An Expanded Principle in Our AdvocacyThe altered landscape in Washington heightens and broadens the advocacy role for AASA.
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Noelle Ellerson Ng on Rural Schools Advocacy
The association's federal policy work for a full third of the nation's schools.
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What's Working, and What's Not
Devising a system that tracks gems (successes) and opps (challenges) in schooling.
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Personal Challenges in South KingstownAlways “the new kid” as a youth, the superintendent in South Kingstown, R.I., ensures all students feel welcomed.
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Editor's Note
Adding Sense to the Cellphone
When I first mentioned to my colleagues on the magazine staff that I wanted us to devote an upcoming issue to examining the proper place of the cellphone, they responded, charitably, with quizzical looks.
I had just attended a public viewing, hosted by a middle school PTSA, of Dulaney Ruston’s excellent film documentary “Screenagers” about the powerful influence of the ever-present cellphone on the lives of young students and the climate of their schools. It was my launching pad for this month’s theme issue, which I believe offers a balanced mix of thinking on the subject.
It begins with a piece by Ruston, a physician and mother of two teen-agers. It’s accompanied by a fascinating case study of a school district in Washington that temporarily unplugged students totally from their ubiquitous handheld items. (Yes, they managed to survive this starvation diet.)
There’s also thoughtful coverage of harnessing the addiction to cellphones for value-added learning and a story of how a Texas school district uses a bring-your-own-device-to-school policy to its advantage.
I’d truly welcome your feedback on this issue — even to tell me something I already know: I probably live on the other side of the personal technology divide.
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